Product Description

Master these two essential building blocks of fluency in Italian quickly and painlessly

Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Pronouns and Prepositions provides you with clear, detailed explanations and all the practice tools needed to master these two knotty elements of Italian grammar. Using many realistic examples taken from everyday life, author Daniela Gobetti takes the mystery out of Italian pronouns and prepositions and gives you plenty of exercises to reinforce what you have learned.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34672 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From the Inside Flap
The only guide focusing exclusively on an area of paramount concern for serious beginning- to intermediate-level language learners
Follows the critically acclaimed Practice Makes Perfect approach, featuring tons of realistic examples and skill-building exercises in a variety of formats
Author is an accomplished language book author and a distinguished college-level language instructor

From the Back Cover

Master Italian pronouns and prepositions quickly and easily

The only way to build your skills in a second language is to practice, practice, practice. Following the successful Practice Makes Perfect approach, this book gives you clear explanations and all the tools you need to learn Italian pronouns and prepositions. A valuable resource for beginning- to intermediate-level Italian learners, Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Pronouns and Prepositions enables you to:

• Successfully grasp Italian pronoun and preposition usage
• Review and compare different types of pronouns and prepositions using easy-to-read tables
• Build your language skills with more than 100 exercises and an answer key

With the help of many everyday examples, this book takes the mystery out of pronouns and prepositions and gets you on your way to communicating in Italian with confidence!

Topics covered include:

• Pronouns as subjects, direct objects, and indirect objects
• Pronouns in prepositional phrases
• Double, reflexive, and relative pronouns
• Interrogative, demonstrative, possessive, and indefinite pronouns
• Prepositions that indicate location, movement, direction, or time
• Prepositions and phrasal verbs

About the Author

Daniela Gobetti teaches Italian at the University of Michigan and is the author of Better Reading Italian.

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Customer Reviews

This book is FULL OF MISTAKES!!!!! don't buy it!
This review is directed in particular to those who teach themselves Italian without a native Italian speaker to guide them through the language.
I'm English but I live in Italy and my girlfriend, who is Italian, teaches Italian to foreigners and works as a translator. We bought 3 of these "Practice makes perfect" books in order to improve my Italian and to be provided with a decent grammar reference. Going through the book you get the feeling it has been written in 5 minutes by somebody who does not have a clue about the didactic of Italian language: it is poorly structured not to mention the recurrent MISTAKES we found throughout the book. When you check the keys at the end of the book you realize that many translations are WRONG! SIngulars are often translated into plural and vice versa. Also many sentences and examples are utterly stupid and NO Italian would use them to communicate in everyday life ( and sometimes not even the written language).
So please, don't waste your money because this book is worth even less than it costs.

Appalling
Written in a sloppy and thoughtless style. E.g. On page 5 the learner is introduced to two sentences: 'Seals love to play' and 'Bats are mammals.'
This is redolent of the infamous nineteenth-century travellers' guide which offered 'My postillion has been struck by lightning' as a useful phrase to memorise.
It is also full of careless mistakes e.g. on page 8 we are taught that 'a sinistra' means 'on the right.'
Pulp it!

Italian pronouns and prepositions
clear explanations on a difficult to master part of the italian language.